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Show i, s r s ' Page Two FRIDAY, JUNE 15, 1962 THE SALT LAKE TIMES ""l III" '' j" ' ' - ': - '" nil IIQII llj I " jt President Kennedy, his Ad-ministration and the Democratic National Commitee are all keep-ing their pollsters busier than usual taking inventory of the ad-ministration's assets and liabili-ties. This stocktaking has assumed new urgency because of the in-evitable political repercussions of the stock market's gyrations. The President's family, per-sonal popularity, political savvy skillful public relations and will-ingness to compromise are obvi-ous assets. But Congressional lack of en-thusiasm for New Frontier leg-islation is of major concern. The market's uncertainty, failure of the administration to raise national output, stem the inter-national ttnlrl imVinlnripP taHiipp Eisenhower, General MacArthur and Clay, the CIA's John McCone and Allen Dulles and the FBI's J. Edgar Hoover. He has shrewdly staffed the very key posts most open to at-tack in his Administration with people the Republicans find it most awkward to denounce. It isn't easy for anyone to take the Administration to task for failing to cope with internal subversion when the FBI's J. Edgar Hoover is in charge. How can CIA policy be effectively criticized when Republican John McCone is Director and Republi-can ex-CI- A chief Allen Dulles its key advisor? How can Berlin policy be criticized when Gen. Luciuc Clay, a Republican, helps make it? unemployment, balance the fed-eral budget and curtail federal spending suggest failure of the President's fiscal economic poli-cies. ' There is mounting sniping and criticism from such divergent groups as labor, business, liber-als, conservatives, Negroes, the South, radical rightists and the Americans for Democratic Ac-tion. The President has thus far failed to negotiate hoped for Cold War settlements on Ber-ln- i, disarmament, Red China and Cuba. He has been unable to stabilize the restless underde-veloped areas of the world, espe-cially Latin America, and has alienated our staunchest allies. He faces powerful Republican comeback challenges following his razor thin election to the Presidency in 1960 with the GOP strengthened by Nixon in Cali-fornia, Rockefeller in New York and Pnmnpv in Mirhicrm Viv tho How can the GOP strike effec-tively at Administration foreign policy when Dean Rusk became Secretary of State via the Rock-fell- er Foundation? How can for-eign aid and trade be criticized when Republicans Eisenhower and Landon support it and GOP Banker Howard Peterson makes foreign trade policy? How can GOP critics strike out at U. S. military strategy when Defense Secretary McNamara, a Ford Motor Co. Republican, is making it? Or how can Administration fiscal economic policies be hit when Republican Treasury Sec-retary Dillon is the administra-tion's fiscal guiding hand? The President has also shown a talent for compromise. Imme-diately after lashing out at the steel industry, he began wooing the business community. When labor, liberals and negros sniped at policies affecting them, he promised "more immediate gains than they dare hope for." The Billie Sol Estes farm sub-sidy scandal could easily create more widespread support for the administration agricultural pro-gram. Our space successes have not hurt the administration. Politics has stopped for the most part at "the water's edge" in Laos, South Vietnam, Thailand and Berlin. The Congo, which once threatened to set all of Africa aflame is no longer a cri-sis. We know he could whip Castro if we try. Communist Rus-sia and China have suffered spec-tacular snafus, especially in ag-riculture and in failing to halt escapees. Kennedy, at 45, is likely to outlive such world troublemak-ers as Khruschev and Mao and such Allied problem makers as Chinag Kai Shek, Adaneur and De Gaulle. Despite strong GOP comeback challenges in all the key states, most State Democratic organiza-tions remain strong, have bigger treasuries. Republicans, putting all their key men up in attempting their comeback, would face a political nightmare if Nixon, Rockefeller, Romney all should lose and Sen. Goldwater's Congressional cam-paign activity fails to elect a Republican Congress. The White House is taking its stock of its assets and liabilities as the elections approach, but, of course, the voter has a final word. ' irrepressible Senator Goldwater and by new generations of Tafts and Lodges. The Administration has been spattered with scandal by the Billie Sol Estes case, even though it seeks the make the Republi-cans share the blame. The president has alienated the business community by his ac-.ti- on in blocking the steel price rise, triggering a new round of economic panic, and an Admin-istration "Anti Business" tone is being blamed by tens of thou-sands of stockholders, big and small, for the sudden market de-clines that wiped out billions of dollars in savings and stock values. He has incurred the wrath of practically all the governors of the 50 states by his Defense De-partment's reorganization of the National Guard, angered the Pentagon's professional "brass" for his crackdown on the Mili-tary and is hated by scores of defense contracting industries for crackdowns on defense contract "profiteering," and has been hurt by the effects of the mili-tary Reserve call up fiasco dur-ing the phony Berlin "crisis." However, the President has also shown a positively amazing talent for turning defeats into victories, liabilities into assets, weaknesses into strength and, on balance, appears to be better than holding his own against an unbroken series of simultaneous foreign and domestic crises since he took office. He has broadened his razor-thi- n election mandate by bring-ing the people into partnership to "help solve the problems." He has divided his Republican foes by winning broad bipartisan support for his basic foreign pol-icy objectives from such power-ful Republicans or conservatives as former Presidents Hoover and Phonetic Alphabet Needed Now, Publisher Contends Why do so many Johnnies and Janes in the English speaking world have so much trouble learning to read and to spell? The main reason is our far from phonetic alphabet which makes English spelling perhaps the most complicated and irregular of any on earth. George J. Hecht, publisher of Parents' Magazine, in a recent issue describes the current ef-forts by three major advocates of new phonetic English alpha-bets to effect spelling reforms, which, it is claimed, would vastly speed up the elementary school teaching of reading and spelling. It is estimated that currently, in spite of improving methods, one out of four American children never learn to read with ease and understanding. In essence. English is one of the most difficult languages in the world to learn "because the letters in the English alphabet do not correspond with the basic sounds of the language," points out Mr. Hecht. Italian, for ex-ample, uses 27 letters for 27 ba-sic sounds and Turkish does the same. German uses 38 symbols for 36 basic sounds; modern Rus-sian employs 36 symbols for 34 ed with school children in Eng-land and Wales. (3) The New Single Sound Al-phabet contains 40 letters, many of them new, to identify what its originator, John R. Malone, of Chicago, claims are the 40 basic sounds in English. The one letter for each sound alphabet, he says, can be learned in less than one and could halve time needed for children to learn to read and write. Proponents stress the advan-tage which a phonetic alphabet would have in teaching English speaking children, in helping the non-Engli- sh speaking people to learn English, and in effecting printing economies because less letters would be needed to be used, and in enabling English to be usable on the "dictatable type writers" now being developed. If a phonetic alphabet could be adopted on a date set well in advance, says Mr. Hecht "spell-ing would no longer be the great problem it now is. Every word would then be spelled exactly as it .is pronounced and pro-nounced exactly as it is spelled." basic sounds. By contrast, English uses 379 symbols (letters or combinations of letters) for 40 to 44 basic sounds. An illustration is the vowel sound in the word "by." While one would naturally ex-pect this sound to be spelled "y" or "i," it is also spelled "igh" as in "high," "ie" as in "die," "uy" as in "buy," "ye" as in "bye," 'is" as in 'island," "eye" and in "island" and "aye" as in "aye." "Justt hink how much these irregularities of pronunciation and spelling add to the difficulty of a young child, trying to read and spell. Imagine how much more difficult arithmetic would be if the figure '4' usually meant four but sometimes meant three or five, and now and again it stood for six" said Mr. Hecht. To meet the problem, three different types of phoenetic al-phabets are being promoted. (1) World English Spelling, adopted in 1955 by the American Simpler Spelling Association, employs only currently used let-ters. It indicates by 19 standard two letter combinations (dia-graph- s) the sounds not now rep-resented by single letters. (2) The Augmented Roman Al-phabet, devised by Britain's Sir James Pitman, is identical in its phoenetic basis and letter com-binations with World English Spelling. It, however, admits 40-od- d more alternative spellings of certain sounds to more closely resemble conventional spelling. With 43 letters, this alphabet is aimed at a two stage method of teaching children to read: first to master the proposed new al-phabet and then switch to the conventional one. A huge experi-ment is currently being conduct-- Claire N. Bouck Retires at BLM Miss Claire N. Bouck, 53 So. 3rd East, is retiring from public service after 26 years as an em-ployee with the federal govern-ment, effective June 8. Miss Bouck served with sev-eral branches of the government during her tour of duty. She en-tered on duty with the Grazing Service January 21, 1936, and later worked for the War De-partment in Antiqua. With the Grazing Service, she held positions in the Range Im-provement Division, CCC pro-gram, and as stenographer in the Regional Grazier's Office of the district office at Burns, Oregon. In Salt Lake City she worked in the Land Office as well as the Division of Range and Forestry, Bureau of Land Management. Before entering government service she worked for various attorneys and business establish-ments in Salt Lake City and Los Angeles. v Miss Bouck was born in Salt Lake City and attended public schools and Henager Business College in this city. She plans to enjoy her retire-ment by first attending the Se-attle World's Fair this summer and then doing the many things she has been planning as her re-tirement approaches. on ((-MO-RE A Mlthe Time THE NEW I kaaur 1230 On Every Radio J ayGillette Adjustable Razor 9 Settings for Superb Shaves! NOWSfL L95 JHKI Straight BourbonWhiskey 6 yr& old 86 Proof Ander Oist CFraiAfori Kjr. 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